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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Struggling reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be from a unit of psychic soldiers who have been reactivated for duty.
30 June 1964, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
12 April 1979, Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
24 April 1977, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
5 February 1973, Quito, Ecuador
1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1981, Media, Pennsylvania, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
6 November 1952, Reno, Nevada, USA
11 May 1977, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
31 May 1955, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
17 November 1951, Sarasota, Florida, USA
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
September 30, 2011
The oddity of its subject matter can't quite find a suitable groove between weird believability and preposterous put-on.
October 21, 2010
The Men Who Stare at Goats makes [True Lies] seem like a sensitive and balanced take on American/Middle Eastern relations.
January 31, 2011
although Clooney's charm factor helps Cassady rise above the caricatures created by the rest of the cast. ... it won't necessarily elevate a mediocre film into one worth watching.
March 05, 2014
It's Heslov's sarcastic, assuming tone, not the actors, that makes Goats so intolerable, and it begins immediately with the opening credits.
February 03, 2011
A genuinely funny film packed with acting talent (...) well worth 90 minutes of anyone's time.
November 06, 2009
The narrative flips and flops ruin the comedic flow.
September 24, 2012
Even at a brief running time of 87 minutes, the film feels stretched, leaving you as "the person who blankly stares at the screen"...until it's finally over.
July 06, 2010
All in all, Goats would have been groaningly familiar, even back in the 1960s.
November 06, 2009
If this is what a Hollywood liberal conscience looks like, it's a glib and useless thing.
November 06, 2009
This is grizzled, wild-eyed Clooney, not the suave sophisticate, and it's a nice change of pace.
November 09, 2009
Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good time, but this one looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch.
November 09, 2009
It's a disappointment.
